It's ol' Jack!

Thursday

Nov 22, 2007 at 12:01 AM

Our neighbors over in Tennessee face a terrible dilemma.
It seems that state officials, acting on a tip, seized about 2,400 bottles of Jack Daniels whiskey from two warehouses and a house last month in Nashville and Lynchburg, where Jack Daniels has its distillery. Some of the bottles are nearly 100 years old and it is suspected that the bottles were to be sold to collectors rather than for imbibing.
Still Tennessee state law prohibits liquor sales by anyone not so licensed. Though as yet no one has been arrested.
And furthermore, the same law requires, and this would sober a sailor on a Saturday night in port, that any such whiskey seized should be poured down the drain.
Some of the whiskey may be auctioned off. But any bottle that could not legally be sold in the state today must be destroyed.
The whole situation has collectors and Jack Daniels aficionados understandably upset. They hope some way can be found to save the stash for those who will appreciate it.
One would hope that Tennessee lawmakers, no strangers to Jack Daniels for the most part if they are anything like politicians in other states, would find a way to exempt this stash from destruction and help these old bottles find a new home where they will be loved and cared for.
If they don't, the thought of these artifacts being lost forever might just drive some collectors to drink.
Texarkana (Texas) Gazette